scholarly journals A robust approach for industrial small-object detection using an improved faster regional convolutional neural network

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Saeed ◽  
Muhammad Jamal Ahmed ◽  
Malik Junaid Gul ◽  
Kim Jeong Hong ◽  
Anand Paul ◽  
...  

AbstractWith the increasing pace in the industrial sector, the need for a smart environment is also increasing and the production of industrial products in terms of quality always matters. There is a strong burden on the industrial environment to continue to reduce impulsive downtime, concert deprivation, and safety risks, which needs an efficient solution to detect and improve potential obligations as soon as possible. The systems working in industrial environments for generating industrial products are very fast and generate products rapidly, sometimes leading to faulty products. Therefore, this problem needs to be solved efficiently. Considering this problem in terms of faulty small-object detection, this study proposed an improved faster regional convolutional neural network-based model to detect the faults in the product images. We introduced a novel data-augmentation method along with a bi-cubic interpolation-based feature amplification method. A center loss is also introduced in the loss function to decrease the inter-class similarity issue. The experimental results show that the proposed improved model achieved better classification accuracy for detecting our small faulty objects. The proposed model performs better than the state-of-the-art methods.

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1662-1669
Author(s):  
Xinpeng Zhang ◽  
Jigang Wu ◽  
Zhihao Peng ◽  
Min Meng

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 1926
Author(s):  
Kai Yin ◽  
Juncheng Jia ◽  
Xing Gao ◽  
Tianrui Sun ◽  
Zhengyin Zhou

A series of sky surveys were launched in search of supernovae and generated a tremendous amount of data, which pushed astronomy into a new era of big data. However, it can be a disastrous burden to manually identify and report supernovae, because such data have huge quantity and sparse positives. While the traditional machine learning methods can be used to deal with such data, deep learning methods such as Convolutional Neural Networks demonstrate more powerful adaptability in this area. However, most data in the existing works are either simulated or without generality. How do the state-of-the-art object detection algorithms work on real supernova data is largely unknown, which greatly hinders the development of this field. Furthermore, the existing works of supernovae classification usually assume the input images are properly cropped with a single candidate located in the center, which is not true for our dataset. Besides, the performance of existing detection algorithms can still be improved for the supernovae detection task. To address these problems, we collected and organized all the known objectives of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) and the Popular Supernova Project (PSP), resulting in two datasets, and then compared several detection algorithms on them. After that, the selected Fully Convolutional One-Stage (FCOS) method is used as the baseline and further improved with data augmentation, attention mechanism, and small object detection technique. Extensive experiments demonstrate the great performance enhancement of our detection algorithm with the new datasets.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenshuai Bai ◽  
Kaijun Wu ◽  
Dicong Wang ◽  
Mingjun Yan

Abstract In view of the fact that the detection effect of EfficientNet-YOLOv3 object detection algorithm is not very good, this paper proposes a small object detection research based on dynamic convolution neural network. Firstly, the dynamic convolutional neural network is introduced to replace the traditional, which makes the algorithm model more robust; secondly, the optimization parameters are continuously adjusted in the training process to further strengthen the model structure; finally, the Learning Rate and Batch Size parameters are modified during the training process in order to prevent overfitting. In order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, RSOD and TGRS-HRRSD remote sensing image data sets are used to test the effect. The results of the proposed algorithm on RSOD remote sensing image data sets show that compared with the original EfficientNet-YOLOv3 algorithm, the mean Average Precision (mAP) value is increased by 1.93% and the mean Log Average Miss Rate (mLAMR) value is reduced by 0.0500; The results of the proposed algorithm on TGRS-HRRSD remote sensing image data set show that compared with the original EfficientNet-YOLOv3 algorithm, the mAP value is increased by 0.07% and the mLAMR value is reduced by 0.0007.


2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (07) ◽  
pp. 13001-13008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhun Zhong ◽  
Liang Zheng ◽  
Guoliang Kang ◽  
Shaozi Li ◽  
Yi Yang

In this paper, we introduce Random Erasing, a new data augmentation method for training the convolutional neural network (CNN). In training, Random Erasing randomly selects a rectangle region in an image and erases its pixels with random values. In this process, training images with various levels of occlusion are generated, which reduces the risk of over-fitting and makes the model robust to occlusion. Random Erasing is parameter learning free, easy to implement, and can be integrated with most of the CNN-based recognition models. Albeit simple, Random Erasing is complementary to commonly used data augmentation techniques such as random cropping and flipping, and yields consistent improvement over strong baselines in image classification, object detection and person re-identification. Code is available at: https://github.com/zhunzhong07/Random-Erasing.


Author(s):  
Tripop Tongboonsong ◽  
Akkarat Boonpoonga ◽  
Kittisak Phaebua ◽  
Titipong Lertwiriyaprapa ◽  
Lakkhana Bannawat

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 172988142199332
Author(s):  
Xintao Ding ◽  
Boquan Li ◽  
Jinbao Wang

Indoor object detection is a very demanding and important task for robot applications. Object knowledge, such as two-dimensional (2D) shape and depth information, may be helpful for detection. In this article, we focus on region-based convolutional neural network (CNN) detector and propose a geometric property-based Faster R-CNN method (GP-Faster) for indoor object detection. GP-Faster incorporates geometric property in Faster R-CNN to improve the detection performance. In detail, we first use mesh grids that are the intersections of direct and inverse proportion functions to generate appropriate anchors for indoor objects. After the anchors are regressed to the regions of interest produced by a region proposal network (RPN-RoIs), we then use 2D geometric constraints to refine the RPN-RoIs, in which the 2D constraint of every classification is a convex hull region enclosing the width and height coordinates of the ground-truth boxes on the training set. Comparison experiments are implemented on two indoor datasets SUN2012 and NYUv2. Since the depth information is available in NYUv2, we involve depth constraints in GP-Faster and propose 3D geometric property-based Faster R-CNN (DGP-Faster) on NYUv2. The experimental results show that both GP-Faster and DGP-Faster increase the performance of the mean average precision.


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